RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) -- The City of Raleigh has agreed to pay three families a total of $350,000 in a lawsuit that contends a former Raleigh police detective framed more than a dozen young black men in a fake heroin scheme starting in November 2019.
Omar Abdullah was fired from the police department in October 2021.
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This is the second lawsuit settled by the city that involved the former detective and confidential informant Dennis Williams.
The first lawsuit was settled for $2 million in September 2021 with 15 plaintiffs alleging Abdullah and others framed them on bogus drug charges.
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A third lawsuit is still pending.